Bradford City Football Club - Bradford
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Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, United United Kingdom.More information:
Bradford City Association Football Club (also known as The Bantams, and previously The Paraders) is an English association football club based in Bradford, playing in League Two. The club's colours are claret and amber and they play their home games at Valley Parade. The ground was the site of a fire on 11 May 1985, which took the lives of 56 supporters. The current manager is Phil Parkinson, who was appointed on 28 August 2011. On 11 May 1985, Valley Parade was the scene of a fatal fire, during which 56 supporters were killed and at least 265 were injured. The game was the final match of the 1984–85 season, before which City were presented with the Division Three championship trophy. The fire destroyed the main stand in just nine minutes.[57][65] The club played its home games at Odsal Stadium, a rugby league ground in Bradford, Elland Road, Leeds, and Leeds Road, the former home of Huddersfield Town, until December 1986, while Valley Parade was redeveloped.[66] The club spent £2.6 million building a new main stand and improving the Kop, and reopened the new ground on 14 December 1986. In 1991, the Bradford end of the ground was the next to be redeveloped, and was converted into a two-tier stand with a scoreboard. In 1996, following City's promotion to Division One, club chairman Geoffrey Richmond announced the construction of a 4, 500 seater stand on the Midland Road side. Ahead of promotion to the Premiership in 1999, Richmond spent another £6.5 million to convert the Kop into a two-tier 7, 500-seat capacity stand.[68] A corner stand between the Kop and main stand was opened in December 2000, taking the capacity to 20, 000 for the first time since 1970.[69] The following summer, the main stand was also converted into a two-tier stand, taking the capacity to 25, 136.